SKINTOP HYGIENIC for Food & Beverage Applications

The new SKINTOP® HYGIENIC from Lapp Group is designed for food zone applications and prevents micro-organisms and bacteria from sticking to the surface. With an IP68/IP69 rating the gland can withstand high pressure and high temperature washdowns which makes it ideal for food & beverage applications.

Hygienic Cable Connections Made Easy

What’s the most important thing to bear in mind when designing systems for hygienic manufacturing environments? Smooth, stainless steel surfaces might be one answer. But more fundamentally, hygiene requires attention to detail.

Take cable glands, for example.  Standard models, while suitable for most industrial settings, typically have exposed threads, tiny openings and protruding surface features that make them less than ideal from a hygiene standpoint.  Recently, our engineers have turned their attention to these easy-to-overlook cable gland details. The result is a new hygienic cable connector called SKINTOP® INOX.

Made from food-grade 316L stainless steel,  SKINTOP® INOX features enclosed, sealed threads. And its exterior surfaces have no gaps or protruding features that can trap particulate or microbes. Even the number of tooling flats, which blend seamlessly with the surrounding housing surfaces, have been reduced to just two. SKINTOP® INOX cable glands finally feature integral food-grade silicone o-rings for IP 68 protection at 5 bar.

Aside from their outward appearance and internal seals, the new hygienic glands meet the same high performance and ease-of-use standards as our other SKINTOP® products. These include:

*  Operating temperature range of -30° to 100° C.

*  Wide clamping range of 7 to 13 mm with M20 x 1.5 threads.

* Compliance with ISO 14159 standards for machinery hygiene.

The first SKINTOP® INOX models, which were introduced last month, are intended for use in splash zones and not for direct contact with food or pharmaceuticals. Models for use in washdown and direct contact applications will be introduced soon.

Download the technical specifications for SKINTOP® INOX here.